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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexi...

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...North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by ... ...erica: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ... Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated wit... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the ... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ...is capital on the banks of the Potomac, knew nothing of the glories of the Mississippi. He did not dream of the speedy addition to his already gathere... ...at time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outlying territories. Louisiana had been recently purchase... ...al Buell, who was stationed at Louisville on the Ohio; and the army on the Mississippi, which had been under Fremont, and of which General Halleck now...

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...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential to the preservation of the libertie...

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...ocracy in America By Alexis de Tocqueville Translator – Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes... ...is de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the... ... inclining towards the Pole, the other towards the Equator – Valley of the Mississippi – Traces of the Revolutions of the Globe – Shore of the Atlanti... ...ans, in their pompous language, have named it the Father of Waters, or the Mississippi. The Mississippi takes its source above the limit of the two gr... ...nother river,* which empties itself into the Polar seas. The course of the Mississippi is at first dubious: it winds several times towards the north, ...

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...hird section of the ?Act further to promote the efficiency of the Navy,? approved 21st of December, 1861, provides: ?That the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall have the authority to detail from the retired list of the navy for the command of squadrons and single ships such officers as he may believe that the good of the ...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 6 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Linco... ...ncoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...in Seven Volumes – Volume Six is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any c... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ... in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pe... ...m Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the material contained within t... ...im- portant service to the Union by his successful operations on the lower Mississippi and capture of New Orleans. Believing that no occasion could ar... ...ALLECK. WAR DEPARTMENT, May 24, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, near Corinth, Mississippi: Several despatches from Assistant Secretary Scott and one from... ...H. W . HALLECK. W ASHINGTON, June 8, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Corinth, Mississippi: W e are changing one of the departmental lines, so as to give ...

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...Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two continents, were deeply interested in the matter....

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